Well, the RegFly issues continue, with their official response being basically … Thank you, your call is important to us, we’re hanging up on you now, as a method of improving our customer service. Goodbye. Read the full details at : ICANN Announcement 2/March

So, since publishing the last few blog entries for the edification of the masses, we’ve seen a massive upsurge in spam, where we are getting the bounce messages, as it puports to be from us… A cursorary glance at the headers show that the spam is actually being generated by a number of exploited boxes […]

HP’s new chairwoman Patricia Dunn has resigned, effective immediately, after her part in the corporate spying scandal that has dogged the company for weeks was revealed. Under orders from Ms Dunn, HP hired a team of private investigators to investigate the leaks of confidential corporate information to CNET News during 2005. The P.I.s have been […]

Shock News! Accounts are daring and exciting people … for those who have a stereo-typical image of Accountants being boring … Harold Rosenbaum Chartered Accountant Extreme Act 1 – Audit of Evil Act 2 – Depreciation to Death Act 3 – The Taxable Trap Act 4 – Ledger Lad Liquidation Act 5 – Damn, It’s […]

Despite being called a cynic and a liar when I wrote that after Google Inc became an ICANN registrar, it signified the impending end of hosted services, it sadly transpires that i was correct… The growth of GoogleMail (GMail) which has largely obliterated Yahoo and Hotmail as a free email service, has now been joined […]

LINX (London INternet eXchange) today published the agenda for the next meeting being held 21/22 August 2006 at the Goodenough College, London … One particular item on the technical agenda caught my eye … Love, Hate, Peering and Transit – A Sordid Tale of Transit-Swapping,Leaking and Other Nefarious Deeds sounds gripping, so booked myself in […]

Othello Technology Systems Ltd acquires BeamHost London, 13th January 2006. Othello Technology Systems Ltd (www.OthelloTech.net), a leading UK provider of domain names, email/web hosting and online services to the for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), today announced that it has acquired BeamHost (BeamHost.co.uk) effective immediately from Coveria Ltd. The inclusion of BeamHost’s CPanel and VPS […]

Othello joins LINX as full member from associate

Google Talk announcement forces Skype to OpenSource their API

Google jabber client aimed at msn/aim/skype users

Do something amazing – give the blood of a spammer …

Win the property of a convicted spammer …

Finally after months of testing various options – a decision on the ticketing service …

As this chapter from a new Ruby development refernce goes to show

Bob Gilbert named as Willie Black’s successor …

Domain Industry News : the future of .NET is about to be unveiled

so the blog is now knackered …

The results for the 2005 ISPAs are as follows ..

Julia Darling’s Weblog featured in the weekend Times and on radio 4

The first quarterly packet exchange point do is upon us …